“In the modern way of knowing, there have to be images for something to become “real.” Photographs identify events. Photographs confer importance on events and make them memorable.” Susan Sontag Like many parents, I spend a decent chunk of my weekend waiting for classes or activities to finish. And if you’re like me, you…
My dad works just over the fence from my school. Sometimes he pokes his face over the fence. So he did, and on the odd occasion I saw him stick his head over to seek me out on the playground during lunch, there I’d be, ambling around, almost certainly waiting for the bell to ring…
But instead she just has to sleep on Keira’s school uniforms.
Last Wednesday night, I spoke about my … well, I’d say ‘nerves’ about the digital age of books. I wondered aloud about what might happen to our bookshops and libraries; how they might be affected; on a business level, certainly, but my concern was on a cultural, even personal, level. For me, nothing compares to…
“If you overcook crème brûlée does it turn into fudge?” Now I’m pretty sure if you overcook crème brûlée it could turn into a number of things – but fudge wouldn’t be one of them. Then again, I’ve been wrong before!
Adam cleaned our bathroom yesterday. And if that’s all the present I get on this day celebrating spending and commercialism special occasion, I’ll be happy. More than happy. (Although if you want to cook dinner, dear, you won’t hear any objections on my part…) Happy Valentine’s Day everybody.
It’s a shave off 10pm, and I’ve just walked through the door from my big afternoon of blog-workshopping and then the panel talk with Angela Meyer and Louise Swinn from Sleepers Publishing. Then I’ve come here to do this: see, that’s proof of commitment if ever there was one, don’t you think?! I had a…
He LOVES your child-sized trolleys.
I was standing in the kitchen when Riley called my attention to this picture he’d made in Windows Paint . Mum! he said. I made a city all on my own. When I looked up, from a distance, I thought he’d somehow googled a satellite image from some cityscape from somewhere in the world. It…
